> Other hash applications (like hash tables) don't need that property I'm unclear on what you guys mean by correlation, but if it means what I think it does I

> Other hash applications (like hash tables) don't need that property I'm unclear on what you guys mean by correlation, but if it means what I think it does I disagree with this. A hash table ideally has an uniform distribution regardless of the input, so any structured correlation with the input will harm this goal in real-world applications.